Motivational Quotes

Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Love

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

10.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

11.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

12.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

13.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

16.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

17.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

18.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

19.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

20.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

21.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

22.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

23.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

24.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

27.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

28.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

30.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

31.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

32.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

33.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

34.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

35.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

36.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

37.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

39.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

40.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

41.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

42.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

43.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

44.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

45.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

46.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

48.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

49.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

50.

Love is a better teacher than duty.